An wholesome antidotus or counter-poison, against the pestilent heresy and sect of the Anabaptists…An holsome antidotus or counter-poysen, agaynst the pestylent heresye and secte of the Anabaptistes…

Jo. This sending, & election, maketh me, to remember y• bishop of ⟨image 59⟩Rome, for after, that the bishop of Rome, did ones get & purchase unto him self, through disobedience, tyranny and pernicious craft, such great power: by and by, did he promote to bishoprics, every mule keeper, bawds and bloody soldiers▪ But, who did teach them, to sever and divide the church, being united, and glued with faith, and charity? seeing that there is but one God, one faith one baptism, and one church? Who hath sent the authors of this sect, to make and congregate a new church? Truly, emulation, envy, strife, contention, avarice, ambition, and stiff pertinacy. I could well and sufficiently prove all these things. except, I should here wittingly, spare some people. ⟨image 59⟩Their Church therefore, is not the Church of God, but a certain sect, and congregation of styffenecked and disobedient people, among whom, there is no more just election, then is in the company of rebels & traitors, which forsaking their own prince or governor, do retchely, & without advisement choose, this man or that man, to be their Captain. But let us grant, that it is a Church, yet not withstanding, they err in election, which is not used among them, according to the precepts of the apostle, Donatus, did gather a particular Church. Nonatus likewise, & both in Africa. And yet not withstanding, none of them both, was called or sent by god. And their Church also, were ⟨image 60⟩no Churches, but conventicles or assembles of Heretics.

Io. This sendyng, & election, maketh me, to remēbre y• bishop of ⟨image 59⟩Rome, for after, that the bisshop of Rome, dyd ones get & pourchasse vnto hym selfe, thorowgh disobedience, tirannie and pernicious crafte, suche great power: by and by, dyd he promote to bisshoprykes, euery mule keper, bawdes and blody souldyours▪ But, who did teache them, to seuer and diuide the churche, beynge vnited, and glued with faithe, and charitee? seynge that there is but one God, one faythe one babtyme, and one churche? Who hathe sent the authours of this secte, to make and congregate a new churche? Truely, amulacion, enuy, strife, contencion, auaryce, ambicion, and stiffe pertinacy. I could wel and sufficiently proue all these thynges. except, I shoulde here wittyngly, spare some people.